Downstream Marketing R&A Finance Analyst

Finance Operations (FO) contributes to the Shell aspiration of becoming the world’s most competitive and innovative energy company by promising to deliver sustainable, externally benchmarked, world class end to end performance in the five processes we operate. FO plays a vital role in enabling the delivery of Finance Functional excellence to Shell.

Reporting & Analysis(R&A) is one of the five processes & employs some 25% of staff within FO. The core purpose of R&A is to provide a top quartile (effectiveness and efficiency) team to drive an agenda of financial accounting, reporting and analysis that delivers relevant external (Group and Corporate) and internal management reporting for Royal Dutch Shell (RDS). The team is designed to drive a process agenda (for efficiency) and a connectivity agenda (for effectiveness) under the four core business pillars of RDS, namely Upstream, Downstream, P&T and Corporate, Holdings and Treasury.

Marketing is a significant downstream business and the face of Shell to most of our customers, it comprises of Retail, Lubricants, Aviation, Specialties & Marine: present in >80 countries; Serving 30 Million+ customers a day through >43,000 Retail sites; >100 Distribution Centers; ~25 Lubes Blending Plants; present in 900 airports; With Shell being the Global Market leader in Lubricants by volume for 10 years and having the Number 1 premium fuel brand V-Power. The Marketing business operates in a very competitive environment and heavily depends on the provision of right insights from MI, Analysis, and Analytics for its business performance management and decision making.

This role will be part of the overall Downstream Marketing R&A team and is a very attractive business finance role with great exposure to one of the marketing businesses and a lot of opportunity to have an impact on the performance of the business.

The role has to build in-depth understanding of the business performance in order to provide deep analysis and insights. The Analyst has to work collaboratively with the business & finance teams to influence the value drivers and to inform business decision making. It is expected that the role will increasingly include data analytics to leverage the data available from our ERPs and accounting systems.

Some of the key deliverables include:

Management Information, Planning and Analysis:

• Prepare monthly business results and explain insights on key value drivers
• Review key drivers & do deep dives to better understand trends/ areas of improvements
• Balance Sheet analysis and Cash Flow reporting
• Prepare Yearly Budgeting (Targets & Resources) and appraisal activities including Latest Estimates
• Drive development/design of new MI and finance support processes
• To support business/customer operations in monitoring their performance
• Continuous focus on improvement opportunities in process and content to reduce complexity, promote best practice and provide focus on financial issues
• Support resolution of the issues/bottlenecks in the reporting process
• Initiate and implement innovative approaches to data analysis and reporting

Stakeholder management

• Proactively manages relationships with the Business Partners
• Keeps abreast of Business developments and Business performance drivers
• Drive projects in line with the business priorities to deliver value for business

Candidates must be resident in Malaysia, or have the right to work in Malaysia

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